Iraq officials targeted as violence kills 13
Baghdad (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Militants shot dead an Iraqi provincial councillor and bombed the education minister's convoy on Wednesday, as violence killed 13 people nationwide ahead of next week's elections. Iraq is suffering a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people this year, and the April 30 parliamentary vote - the first since American troops departed in 2011 - will be a major test fo ... more

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